Hello! I'm a local historian working on a series of articles about London Road, Croydon, and I could do with some help interpreting an archived shopfront image from Google Street View.

The shopfront in question is the yellow one on the left in this Street View image. Could someone give me a transcription and translation of the non-English words ( Read more... )

Here's a fun little project some of you linguaphiles might be able to help me out with ( Read more... )

Hallo.
Can anybody help with reading worn out description, probably in Latin or Italian?
It is here:
http://philipp178.livejournal.com/1657.html

If it is wrong community, sorry!

Hello hello. I could really use some IPA transcription for how to pronounce the following names/words in their respective languages, since none of those languages are my forte and reading the phonology pages on Wikipedia is not something I really have time for on this. XD I have some idea about a few of these, but anything that can be provided ( Read more... )

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Hello, linguaphiles!

I have been trying to transcribe an audio file (from a video presentation) but there are some parts (words, names, phrases) that I can't make out. If someone has the time to sit and listen to it and the patience to decipher one or some of those parts, I would be really grateful. I should add that there is a fair amount of ( Read more... )

Hello all! :) I've recently found the Russian dub (which is pretty awesome) of the song "Hare Hare Yukai", and I'm interested to know the lyrics. Due to my lack of Russian skills, I haven't been able to find them through Google. The song is pretty short, so could someone who speaks Russian figure them out? (A transliteration would also be ( Read more... )

I have my German oral exam next week. It's mainly about six themes and the teacher gave us audio files with transcriptions to help us prepare the exam. However, the transcription for one of the themes is missing. I have tried to listen to the file at least 30 times, but I can only understand maybe half of it. Partly because my German is bad, and ( Read more... )

Hello~ My friend downloaded a Japanese album and found this in the metadata: 僴僫僂僞乣墦偄愄偐傜偺暔岅乣. The tracklist does not list any Chinese songs, so we're curious what on Earth this means, if anything.

Thanks!

Dear linguaphils.
How would you pronounce a surname "Vujicic"? He's a motivational speaker but I don't know how famous he is throught English speaking countries.  II neeed help with "c" sounds. So what is it " Vudzhisick"? "Vudzhisich"?

Please help, I really need to pronounce his name in front a big auditory in like 3 hours and I'm confused. )